6 month old suddenly not sleeping through anymore!

[Hannah0120]

Hi All,

FTM.. Since 5 weeks old DD has been brilliant with her sleep, I got really lucky as she slept through varying from 8-8, 8-6, 8-7am. However, since around 5.5 months she is constantly waking through the night! Sometimes an hour or two after being put down and then every other hour after this. 9/10 times she is taking a feed when waking.. is this some sort of growth spurt? Teething? Regression? I guess my question is.. will I sleep again? I’m due back to work soon and don’t know how I’m going to cope with such frequent night wakings.. hubby does help out where he can but he has a very hands on job so I’d rather him get as much sleep as he can. Also to mention, I have noticed that this more frequent waking started around the same time we started weaning! Could this be a coincidence? She is diagnosed CMPA however I am very careful with what she has not to trigger her allergy and so far she has been ok with everything and is actually a huge foodie.. she loves it!

Sleep regressions are really common, we found most passed quite quickly. When it was clear one wasn't we did sleep training, 6 months might be a touch early though. Whatever people say a couple of nights with an hour or so of crying to get kids that have slept through for the next decade was well worth it, not just for us, but also they benefited by being good sleepers and by having parents that are well rested for them.

Could I ask, just briefly how you did this? And how long it took..

I'd google it as we did it ages ago, but if they wake up and cry we'd wait to go in, then we'd just comfort them without lifting them and go out. if they carried on we'd do the same a few minutes later. Bit by bit we'd lengthen the gaps. I think we had two bad nights and then maybe one or two not perfect then we've had them sleep through for a decade. I know other parents who didn't sleep properly from when the first was born until the youngest was 6 or 7 which is insane really.